Insert block of color into text file

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The following line of code appears in a python source file. It appears exactly like this when the file is opened up in VS Code and in vi (as well as this text edit block). When I cat the file, the green square is replaced by several non-ascii characters. My question is how does one create a line of text with a swatch of some arbitrary color?

   'correct_place': '🟩',

don't know if this is a solution, but you might have to change the encoding of the cat command to match? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78776/… — Andrew Ryan
– Andrew Ryan, Commented Dec 21, 2022 at 3:09
I don't care so much that cat isn't displaying the color swatch. What I want to know is how it got entered into the file, via vi or code, in the first place. — user206545
– user206545, Commented Dec 21, 2022 at 3:14

Tom Herman · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-21 05:14:13Z

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🟩 ("Large Green Square") is actually an emoji. Every emoji has a unicode number. The unicode number for 🟩 is U+1F7E9.

You can open a file in VSCode, copy the emoji above and paste it in that file (using the regular copy and paste commands on your computer, like command+C command+V).

You can also use the echo command in a Linux terminal to write this emoji into a file by using 🟩's unicode number, for example:
$ echo -e '\U0001F7E9' >> sizzzzlerz.txt
$ cat sizzzzlerz.txt
🟩

answered Dec 21, 2022 at 5:14

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